A commentary or exposition upon the four Evangelists, and the Acts of the Apostles: wherein the text is explained, some controversies are discussed, divers common places are handled, and many remarkable matters hinted, that had by former interpreters been pretermitted. Besides, divers other texts of Scripture which occasionally occur are fully opened, and the whole so intermixed with pertinent histories, as will yeeld both pleasure and profit to the judicious reader. / By John Trapp M. A. Pastour of Weston upon Avon in Gloucestershire.

And whosoever shall say unto his brother, Racha]

Anger (as fire)* 1.1 if smothered, will languish, but let out, will flame into further mis∣chief. Cease from anger, saith David, for else thou wilt fret thy* 1.2 self to do evil. And if thou hast done evil (or plaid the fool, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.3 read it) saith Agur, in lifting up thy self (and puffing against* 1.4 thy 〈◊〉〈◊〉, against whom in thine anger thou hast devised some* 1.5 mischief) if thou hast thought evil against him, yet lay thy hand upon thy mouth: say not so much as Racha, utter not any so much as an inarticulate voice, snuffe not, snort not, spet not, as he, Deut. 25 9. stamp not with clapping of the hands, as Balac, say not so* 1.6 much as fie, to thine offending brother, saith Theophylact; thou* 1.7 him not, saith Chrysostome, call him not silly or shallow, one that* 1.8 wants brains, saith Irenaeus, qui expuit 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as the word sig∣nifieth,* 1.9 if it signifie any thing. Surely (saith Agur, setting forth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of his former precept by a double similitude) the churn∣ing* 1.10 of milke brinketh forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth bloud: so the forcing of wrath (the giving it its forth and full scope, and not suppressing it when it first begins to boile in a mans brest) bringeth forth strife. Let therefore the first heat of passion settle, and that darknesse passe, that hath clouded the minde. Ut fragilis glacies, occidat ira morâ. Walke into the gar∣den with Ahashuerosh, into the field with Jonathan, when his fa∣ther* 1.11 had provoked him to wrath: (against the Apostles precept.)* 1.12 Divert to some other company, place, businesse, about something thou canst be most earnest at. Give not place to wrath, no not a lit∣tle:* 1.13 〈◊〉〈◊〉 God before thy tumultuating passions, and so silence them; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 worse will follow.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 le 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.2

  psal 37. 8.
• * 1.3

  Pro. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 32, 33.
• * 1.4

  expounded.
• * 1.5

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.6

  Numb. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 10.
• * 1.7

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.8

  〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.9

  〈◊◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊◊〉 pro 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.10

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.11

  1 Sam. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 24.
• * 1.12

  Eph. 6. 4.
• * 1.13

  Quid 〈◊〉〈◊〉, dia∣bole nequissime, ad 〈◊〉〈◊〉 civita∣tem perturban∣dam accessisti? dicit 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Gul. Farello.